the problem here in being gandhi is that some employees became not only part of the story but in its name climbing the floor our correspondent in libya discovers how journalists there are throwing up oil on the fire stoking the conflict just to get striking headlines. as get out he's foreign cash goes under lock and key exports one of the legacy of using frozen assets as a long term political tool. young people in italy look to inject fresh blood into the country's leadership but some fear it could mean leading to the nationalistic all right.

two pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story fightings intensified in several key cities in libya as progress off you forces strike to regain control reports say dozens of people have been killed in numerous attacks on the rebel held areas anti-government forces say they need to bring in artillery for their planned advance on tripoli meanwhile authorities are accusing the rioters of using civilians as human shields and they come under attack from procrit a few forces international media says the country's on the brink of civil war and that the number of victims is heading into the thousands but are these are sort of boyko reports the majority of journalists have been exaggerating the reality. of war in comprehensible as it sounds it's present in any conflict just days ago these parents feared for their children's lives today they're taking their pictures in front of the tanks the desire to be captured laughing in the face of danger is

even stronger in the journalists and the conflict in libya is providing a perfect setting for a moment gadhafi is striking back there we're hearing reports of warplanes bombing opposition camps in eastern libya forces loyal to libyan leader moammar gadhafi appeared to be advancing east into areas held by his opponents on t.v. screens have been ghazi may look like the center of the rebel resistance but in reality it's more like a seaside resort than a conflict zone who kills a fully booked with journalists and residents go about their daily lives here boys are looking for new things to play with toy guns are in ample supply some reports from been ghazi referred to the fig tree in eastern libya as war another conflict zone where rebels are engaged in sporadic and are slowly pitched battles with pro get out the forces but an all out war now i don't have any fear life is going on as

usual it's ok you know what's one of the first reporters to arrive in the ghazi for several days she's been traveling with the rebels about two hundred kilometers west of the city at some point the pro-government forces opened fire at her crew a focal point of a report there is a war going on and where the real like it or not there is so there is a front line you know and there are people with guns and there are two sides fighting she's channels know that gunfire and explosions make for strong disease but they also can help to blow things out of resource with journalists and leave people to report freely from tripoli and all the gadhafi controlled parts of libya son can find themselves. for the rebel side of the story just opening up to journalists they just love them and. just whenever they take one city we go with them and then we go into into the other city but reporters need rebels to hear in the opposition's press center in because the internet access isn't restricted and

because the available twenty four hours the message is on the wall and sometimes finds its way into reports people surprised each other in the head so. we are really in danger. because we don't trust the driver so we have to be with him horsemeat circle so you as a human being you tell me how could you be any objective here is human rights with rebels professing their readiness just by gadhafi his regime to the bitter end no wonder news reports a caring predictions of in an uncivil war yet as the rebels inability to mount a fully fledged defensive becomes more apparent so is the unbalanced nature of the coverage medium a call for delusional but in their assessment. they don't show a full grasp of the situation either. many people think that being

a book or respond to takes a lot of courage and hard work actually. it's much easier and more enjoyable than routine journalistic assignments especially when the receiving side they start commentating the problem here in gaza is that some reporters became not only part of the story but in its main driving force and instead of hoping that full blown confrontation and block showed the very thing that almost calling for it sort of like an artsy bin gazi. us radio steven lemon says the white house is using the country's media to put a spin on events in libya. the people who use theory change when these people want something different we realize that maybe have a difference in weight in the cheap sions in the out year you know isn't it you eons they realize if the worst thing they can happen to them is western intervention it's just the west gets control it country is actually america it will

be much much worse they are used to one answer from america instead of from the west oh the stimulus to you mary. this might surprise you believe me it's really just a new yorkers and i literally go the closest state in america to an official state ministry of information propaganda if you put out this race well what's up with these. with good old want to teach us a very much more we look at egypt you know and you read the you. know we've already won the emmy. world affairs expert steven cohen says what's going on in libya won't necessarily bring about democracy here are some of what we'll hear in about twenty minutes time when the new york academic speaks with r.t. . i did story today repeating what turkey and so many countries are like.

very rarely does an. american intervention. discredits your prerogative to turn it into being overthrown because it appears the pirate was overthrown with the backing of the united states and the force of the free want to just take a. single guy and edition what we're witnessing. and. it's not clear these are pro democracy which are these are and can respond because they want to get rid of a dictator. getting rid of the dictator or going to the country doesn't lead to surviving to democracy not to cross. and the libyan government is reportedly running out of cash with the accounts of colonel moammar gadhafi and his inner circle being frozen around the world un security council's unanimously order to travel and assets bad on the libyan

leader's regime artie's laura lister takes a look at how these resources abroad might be used. but as violence continues in libya the u.s. sends warships and more troops in that direction fueling speculation of a military intervention and meanwhile western countries may have already launched a war against colonel moammar gadhafi as north african regime. consider. freezing over so this is part of. the weapons here the foreign assets of either libya the country or khadafi and his family that some estimate to be almost one hundred billion dollars it's believed to be spread across the globe or you all money invested through the country's sovereign wealth fund everything from a stake in the company that owns the financial times newspaper to land near the spanish resort town of marble being developed into homes and

a golf course to the oil company beer annex and billions of dollars of cash in drinks throughout europe and the u.s. the question now is what happens to all this money especially the thirty billion dollars the united states has frozen if there was ever in the history of this country and this type of situation it essentially cuts libya off from the entire u.s. banking system for now it stays put while the situation is still uncertain but what is certain the president of the united states is now in control of this money which gives him a powerful tool book. deal about this money or some of this money. will go forward. whatever the u.s. port is trying to accomplish. that he thinks it's all a melt control and profit. that empire

empire or the greatest profits on the military contracts and the oil contracts. they will work overtime those corporations at their interest to enact these sanctions the u.s. president declared the situation in libya quote an unusual and extraordinary threat to u.s. national security and foreign policy that's not typical considering there is not a clear aggressive action libya has taken against the u.s. as for libya's financial interests analysts say you could look at the history of countries such as iran their assets were frozen in the wake of the one nine hundred seventy nine hostage crisis their money that was seized from iran back in one nine hundred seventy nine has still you know not been returned to the iranians so it's basically time for a ponder play you know if we can take it away from them we will the money is used most often to pay for the settlements of lawsuits against a leader or a government or to recoup losses to gaddafi can likely cause the money could buy we

took their nuclear capacity away made promises didn't live up to them claim that was a great victory for peace and now we're in a situation where it's clear that oil is at stake the future of the massive sums of money reach for libyan oil is now is uncertain is the divided country it came from lauren lyster r.t. new york. stay with us here on r.g.p. still to come the name of the night a moscow nightclub throws a party tile that titled after russia's prime minister but bloodier putin is not exactly flattered of being the face of the event plus. we do a moscow's roof top to see what one of the city's highest flying women is up to. but first it looks like italy's decision makers need to watch their backs with more italians shifting their support to find new people to kick start their country but that could mean a worrying lurch to the far right as matthew stevens reports from rome. it's nice

dolci the time is turning bitter unemployment is a near record high and analysts believe much needed economic growth might still be years away moreover fresh scandals engulfing prime minister berlusconi are being reported on a daily basis fueling italians traditional distrust of politicians bad news yes but not for everyone grassroots political movements rather than parties cashing in on this grim state of affairs among them neofascist ones you know this is italy's cause a pound our plan to take everything this is this queen of course the multicultural multiethnic parts of the bustling community of asian middle east and north african residents living side by side but here in this six story building says the headquarters this is most prominent the fast growing radical right cause the power

. named after us spurred as a pound and unwavering support of mussolini's fascist regime this building is home to seventy of the movement's members the walls are covered with the names and posters of their heroes including some surprisingly taken from the leftist media such as che guevara cousin pan supporters grown alongside the unemployment rate a staggering twenty nine percent of his time youth the currently without a job he was young well of italy is a country of all people it is hard for the young to find a job or make their voices heard we're not only a generation deprived of our future but also of our present. because the balance present with its brand of revamped third millennium fascism as its members shamelessly put it is one of rapid growth in direct contrast to the country's economy. through its intense agenda of discussion forums here splitting rock concerts and squat actions the movements is on the up and. on

a recent membership campaign gathered over two thousand five hundred paying supporters on just it's a new this is an association of free men and women of every social class and age we believe that fascism was a grand period in italy's past all of cultural an artistic splendor we can't put a label ourselves as fascists we are witnessing the end of the political parties rule movements such as this one will prevail against them. members also claim there are an anti racist anti discrimination movement they just playing the political correctness game some fear this might be the case also because the pound is a dangerous phenomenon i received threats over the phone when i post public comes into concerts and they organized here in rome they sang me some intimidating lyrics of one of their band songs then hung up the movements members deny any wrongdoing and came the media and left us politicians and misrepresenting them the disconnect

between lawmakers in the electorate in italy is growing with an opposition virtually dominated by anti bill is going to rhetoric and the shattered ruling coalition seemingly more focused on its leaders legal issues but on the country's fate to some here even mussolini a dead dictator seems to be more appealing to matthew stevens rome for r.t. . and in the next hour crosstalk tackles people power in the face of deep economic cuts as thousands of americans continue their third week of rallies outside the wisconsin state capitol here all bells gas and gas ask whether cutting back union rights really make a difference. people fighting for their rights here i mean americans fighting hard enough for a universal human right collective bargaining. yeah and you know i think i think americans have stopped buying this argument that it's that it's the unions you know republicans have successfully over the last thirty or forty years up until now said you know it's the unions small you know they're making fifty sixty thousand dollars

a year you're making thirty to forty and it's their fault that you're not making more money people have stopped buying that you know we are spending too much money on things like defense we haven't raised taxes to pay for the things that we're supposed to pay for taxes life is like the third rail in american politics right next to social security when over publicans going to say ok not only do we have a spending problem we have a revenue problem. when it comes to branding and event to draw in crowds of young people politicians names don't usually top the list but a moscow nightclub success with has hosted a successful party but the prime minister's office is less than happy about it even though the club's owners say it was the customer's choice of tribute artie's sarah firth reports. by. the by now although.

it's exactly this type of. other illegal. mr prime minister himself and all of us working with him we are trying to be very careful about not letting his name being used in proper and proper sense. he himself is favoring the cases where his name is used for promotion of a healthier way of living for promotion. aid to children for promoting whatever useful but certainly i mean using his name for promoting a party in a private club in my opinion is. the theme of the party which was the. name of the prime minister was chosen by the public surpassing the names of children bruce willis and. this is not

a commercial we knew might be controversial but we decided to throw in. some of the people at the nightclub they're only saying that they think that that's . like nothing new the prime minister oh i think it's a really good idea. i think if you could go back to washington. or something over having a. presidential i'd be making a ton of money. and i think a lot of. strong. countries a handful of. the great. i was a private. private. a lot of the time.

remember you can find more on stories like this and everything else we cover on our website r t v dot com here's what else is online for. a tasty international way of saying goodbye to the winter russian style learn about the maslow needs a holy week. then discover the slavic version of the bogeyman it's a grandmother who works for evil one misbehaving children out a frightening fairy tale is headed for the big screen you can find out more in the arts section of our t. dot com. it's the season now for one group of people to head up high and get a little dirty for a chimney sweeps of moscow it's a busy time of year what's more you can forget the stereotypes of it only being men

with rooms on the city's skyline as archy's tom barton reports it's not just the guys who are doing the dirty work it's snowy and cold of this moscow roof but this team to remove snow they're interested in the chimney sort of the primary this is a very old we don't even know if it's possible to find. sometimes ten chimneys. apart from the love of roofs galena is also unusual in being moscow's only female chimney sweep she runs the company the art of the chimney sweep cleaning city stacks all over the capital including some rather special one realtor would. we want to inside the kremlin and similar mansions in all chechens i love my profession because i get to see very interesting places others don't get to see one of those star make covers for jimmy courts and consult the you know some of moscow's especially complicated flues they say they're full of respect for the

books. mother. she does a great job managing the team and dealing with a heavy workload especially as this work is usually considered only from a thanks believe me used to have a male business partner but he didn't like the technical nature of the job and left her years of experience no make a specialist in her field which humour's with men to get a harsh physical where women are better at ministration and coming up with creative solutions everyone knows our brains work differently for example women can concentrate on many things at once. she's also very proud of her work stumbling a guild with other chimney cleaning companies she even tells us some of the folklore surrounding chimney sweeps and widely believed to be good luck. cause i found one hundred ten very old but she had no fireplace or chimney she just wanted to see and touch a real chimney sweeper good luck for somewhat going abroad is beneath them to

others it goes right over their head for her when she's up here she's on top of the world from martin are three months ago. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe lava is once again spewing from one of the world's most active volcanoes mount killer way and hawaii has fired more than iraq in one thousand meters into the sky scientists say the heightened activity was spotted shortly after a crater floor collapsed no homes are under threat the volcano has been in constant eruptions and one thousand nine hundred three. northern chile has been struck by a six point two magnitude earthquake sending shock among the local residents although no injuries are reported you have a center was in a rural area on the border with haroon emergency crews say the damage is minimal the areas endured frequent tremors the country's also still recovering from two thousand and ten as massive earthquake that killed more than five hundred people. after almost three decades of space service the shuttle discovery is about to begin its final journey home the crew said their goodbyes to those aboard the

international space station and are now ready to undock discovery will orbit the earth one last time in taking a few photos along the way before making its final landing on wednesday business news up next with three americans stay with us here on r.g.p. . hello and welcome to our business update here on r t good to have you with us where prices are keeping last week's pace as fighting in libya rages on with concerns that unrest will spread to nearby oil producing countries brant crude has hit a two year high and is currently trading at around one hundred eighty dollars a barrel that's why i like sweet is it over is over one hundred six dollars a barrel but investment bankers say the price is far higher that real production costs. were martyrs and many were is a perfect the more these markets are in the long term for most of the time and normally for the not so much unfortunately it's become the first middle on each of

those the battle. for the workforce is much harder it is something premium and better than the old pros from the fire drought there was a lot of political instability around the world but fundamentally you know the souls of those battles about the rights of muslims are singles to the world and that's the sort of where with respect sorel to be floating around the world. and russia's gastrell has become one of the world's ten companies to gain from the recent oil price hike so the group has calculated that every ten dollar rise in crude price results in a ten percent rise in gas prices earnings per share the rating is taught by canadian natural resource corp its earnings jumped by one third. and the rising oil prices has been strengthening the ruble russian currency has jumped almost eight percent to the dollar and roughly five percent to the euro since the beginning of the year because from the t.v. capital predicts the ruble could strengthen further in the coming months. good.

due to all these men on the wrist and we also should take into consideration their every. box increase in oil from. forty billion dollars. on the current accounts so the first quarter likely would be. there. at least until the end of march and probably through the roi as well. let's take a look at the markets now european stock markets and makes this are the footsie has recovered from early losses while the dax is trading lower u.k. indexes helped by strong results from intertie group satellite visitations firm inmarsat dropped sharply after reporting its two thousand and ten results lying stocks are mostly low in london both rio tinto and been down resources are down.

and here across the markets a close for public holiday stocks finished their last trading session in the black most of the blue chips were higher last week with banks and b. to be up over one percent. continued growth at all prices and a strengthening look of being the main drivers for russian markets in the coming week brian business from uni credit security says the ruble is giving room to the russian retail sector as well. you will continue to strengthen obviously that's going to be proved very supportive for a lot of the russian consumer names definitely getting more optimistic about may need x five going forward the banks will benefit indirectly from the struggling ruble still like sperm bank right now but of course we expect for some of the steel producers to come under pressure being it that they have a majority of their fees locally here in rubles. after for any of the important prices would be dollar denominated during two thousand and ten so it's

international banks are now as they want to cut back their presence in the russian banking sector morgan stanley sold its russian mortgage business last year barkley says it's pulling out spain's centime there has left the retail mortgage sector but others say the russian banking industry is becoming more competitive international players states controlled banks have become more aggressive. in these more competitive much more competitive markets. of scale matter so what. barker was didn't have enough skill and. so they decided to look for for a better reason but that does not mean the russian market became an attractive it's still very attractive but it's more competitive. russian government is planning to set up a ten billion dollar investment fund to help better attract foreign investment into

the country reports say that international financial giant goldman sachs has met and formally asked to guide the project past year for investments amounted to almost one hundred ten billion dollars with key focus on manufacturing retail and natural resources that's often i'll be back with more less than fifteen minutes.

wealthy british scientists someplace and sometimes it's because. of their. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is cause a report on our. morning news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to call for asians to rule the day. some. question.